Saturday 14 August 2010

Marc Hauser

Inquiry on Harvard Lab Threatens Ripple Effect (New York Times, August 12, 2010)
* "Harvard’s slow-motion inquiry about the laboratory of Marc Hauser, one of its star academics, has cast a shadow over the several different fields in which Dr. Hauser and his students published papers."


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Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman (Wikipedia)
* "Richard Phillips Feynman (pronounced /ˈfaɪnmən/, May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world."
* "Name - Richard Phillips Feynman"
* "DOB - May 11, 1918."
* "Death - February 15, 1988."
* "Born - Far Rockaway, Queens, New York."
* "Nationality - American"

I'm An Explorer Okay - Richard Feynman Documentary - The Last Journey Of A Genius [1988] (ALCHEssMIST)

Cargo Cult Science - Richard Feynman
From a Caltech commencement address given in 1974.
Also in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

* "During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas--which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science. And it developed very well, so that we are now in the scientific age. It is such a scientific age, in fact, that we have difficulty in understanding how witch doctors could ever have existed, when nothing that they proposed ever really worked--or very little of it did."


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Edward Morley

Michelson–Morley Experiment (Wikipedia)
* "The Michelson–Morley experiment was performed in 1887 by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley at what is now Case Western Reserve University. Its results are generally considered to be the first strong evidence against the theory of a luminiferous aether. The experiment has also been referred to as "the moving-off point for the theoretical aspects of the Second Scientific Revolution"."


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Albert Michelson

Michelson–Morley Experiment (Wikipedia)
* "The Michelson–Morley experiment was performed in 1887 by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley at what is now Case Western Reserve University. Its results are generally considered to be the first strong evidence against the theory of a luminiferous aether. The experiment has also been referred to as "the moving-off point for the theoretical aspects of the Second Scientific Revolution"."


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